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Sun, 16 July 2006, 09:19 pm
Logos24 posts in thread

I know people are going to give me a hard time for this BUT what the hell has happened to the english language. The Brent Street thread is almost totally unintelligible (now I'm not sure that's right) a lot of the time and they are supposed to be being taught academic subjects as well as dance. In fact a great many posts on this site are grammatically awful and the spelling is atrocious. I know I'm not perfect but for God's sake. And don't tell me it's not as important as your skills, it is one of your skills. If you have no command of the language you speak how can you understand what you are saying or singing. You can't be a musician if you can't read music, how can you be an actor (in an english speaking country) if you can't use english. The words are used incorrectly and mispelled. I give up. I am considering moderating any posts I find with more than three or four spellling errors out of existence. (Just joking of course) and yes I am the grammer police.

The tip of the point

Wed, 19 July 2006, 02:17 pm

I think Logos's original posting was more to do with the deterioration of understanding language in itself (correct me if I am wrong). I then brought forth the example of lazy language (SMS etc) being a pro-active agent in that downturn. We all understand that language evolves and adapts, that is a given. The comments are more to do with the de-evolution of language into gibberish and babling.

Dixi

Jeff Watkins
Perth based Actor/Performer
Fight/Sword Choreographer

http://au.geocities.com/labrug

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